Photos from Rifle - Nov. 22, 2012

<b>Mike McKibbin Citizen Telegram</b>A young female turkey, known as a "hen," and a rooster look for food among the cornstalks at a ranch owned by Mike and Kaycee Manuppella on Silt Mesa. This turkey will survive Thanksgiving, but, according to Wikipedia, American turkey growers raised 270 million turkeys in 2006, to be processed into five billion pounds of turkey meat valued at almost $8 billion, with one third of all turkey consumption occurring in the Thanksgiving-Christmas season, and a per capita consumption of almost 18 pounds.